Porte d'Orléans (Paris Métro)
 Porte d'Orléans General Leclerc |
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| place | Paris XIV |
| opening | October 30, 1909 |
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Porte d'Orléans 
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Porte d'Orléans is an underground station on line 4 of the Paris Métro .
location
The station is located in the 14th arrondissement of Paris below the Avenue du Général Leclerc and the Place du 25 Août 1944 .
Surname
The Porte d'Orléans was one of the seventeen city gates of the Thiers'schen city fortifications , a wall ring that was laid out to fortify the French capital in the 1840s. After the First World War , the wall was torn down. The city of Orléans is the capital of the Loiret department south of Paris.
The station has the suffix " Général Leclerc " on the platform signs . Jacques-Philippe Leclerc, actually Philippe François Marie, comte de Hauteclocque, was a French general during World War II . In 1952 he was posthumously appointed Marshal of France .
History and description
On October 30, 1909, when the southern section of line 4 from Raspail to Porte d'Orléans was opened, the station went into operation. In contrast to the Parisian construction method used at the time, the three-track underground station was built in an open excavation and, instead of a brick vault, was given a ceiling construction made of metal girders.
From its opening until the beginning of 2013, the station was the southern terminus of line 4. It had a side platform for the arriving and a central platform between two tracks for the outgoing trains. The two platforms were set up slightly offset from one another. The numbering of the tracks was "1" for the track on the arrival platform and "2" for the eastern track on the departure platform. The middle platform track "Z" was provided with an inspection pit.
A double-track reversing loop followed to the south of the underground station , the outer track of which served as a siding . On the inner track, the trains either turned by driving through the loop and reached the departure platform on the eastern edge of the platform, or they turned around in the tunnel at an operating platform and, after changing the direction of travel, entered the western track.
The extension of line 4 from Porte d'Orléans to Mairie de Montrouge went into operation on March 23, 2013. In this context, the track layout was changed. The turning loop was interrupted and has only been used to park trains since then. The platform in the direction of Paris only has one track. The second track was abandoned and an elevator to street level was installed there.
The station has six exits to the street space. Until 2011, it was one of the last to have automatically closing platform screen doors on the departure platform. Since the opening of line 3a of the Paris tram in 2006, which crosses the metro above ground, there has been a transfer option at its stop of the same name.
Automatically closing platform screen doors on the departure platform, 2008
The two platforms are laterally offset from one another
Track Z on the departure platform with inspection pit
Departure platform before the renovation with two rubber-tyred MP 59 trains
One of the six entrances, marked by a yellow "M" in a double circle
Web links
- Track plan of the station since the route was extended in 2013
- symbioz.net with track plan before the route extension and current track plan
literature
- Gérard Roland: Stations de métro. D'Abbesses à Wagram . 2003, ISBN 2-86253-307-6 .
Individual evidence
- ^ Jean Tricoire: Un siècle de métro en 14 lignes. De Bienvenüe à Météor. La Vie du Rail, Paris 2004, ISBN 2-902808-87-9 , pp. 45/46.
- ↑ a b Jean Tricoire, op.cit, p. 191.
- ↑ Symbioz.net (French) accessed December 28, 2013
| Previous station | Paris metro | Next station |
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Alésia ← Porte de Clignancourt |
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Mairie de Montrouge Mairie de Montrouge → |
Coordinates: 48 ° 49 ′ 23.4 " N , 2 ° 19 ′ 32.3" E